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Stratagem Quotes by Harold Pinter
- One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking…
More Stratagem Quotes
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this… — Washington Irving
- One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. — Harold Pinter
- On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try… — Sun Tzu
- To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout
- The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may… — Eliza Haywood
- The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning… — Stanley Hauerwas
- So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney
- Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret.… — Stephen Tobolowsky
- If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God.… — R C Sproul
- Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established… — Abraham Joshua Heschel